On 11/12/2015 12:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Are you serious? Somebody's soldering in hard drives (SSD or otherwise)?
Calm down. I'm just jumping to scurrilous conclusions: everything gets
soldered in these days.
I figure Chromebooks use soldered eMMC, and a quick Googling suggests so.
Apple? They don't want anyone doing field upgrades with discount parts,
so they would have reason to solder in their flash. A quick Googling of
"macbook air teardown" yields an ifixit.com hit from this year: "The
flash memory is still PCIe-based, and remains, thankfully, removable—at
least for now.". Seems ifixit.com fears Apple will start soldering any
time now.
Once you start building really small (tables, phones) soldering is
cheaper, more reliable, works better at high frequencies, and is smaller
than using sockets. These new in-between really thin notebooks? Some
will start soldering any day now, if they haven't already.
But no, circa 2015 I would still expect standard x86-type machines to
use standard*, removable parts because that is the cheapest and most
flexible way to do it.
-kb
* Standard used to be a socketed CPU, but they are getting soldered...
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